Friday, January 27, 2012

Michael hastings

  • Not many journalists can say they had a hand in getting a commanding general relieved of duty in the middle of a war.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Note: Please feel free to download the mp3 by right-clicking the mp3 link and choose the Save Target As function. This week on CounterSpin: In the summer of 2010 Rolling Stone published an explosive story about the Afghan War.
  • (FAIR)
  • Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and miles south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • The irony is that Kantors publisher, Little, Brown, which had originally inked a deal for The Operators, dropped Hastings book last summer because it feared the tome was too controversial, according to Hastings.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • An Afghanistan expert, journalist Michael Hastings, says in his new book, "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan" that Gen.
  • (Arab News)
  • Michael Hastings doesnt agree. He sees journalism, particularly when writing about media-greedy public figures, as being like the seduction of a prostitute. In other words, publicity hounds who try to co-opt honest reporters get what they deserve.
  • (Los Angeles Times)

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